Provide Forum Hosting services & get money

Provide Forum Hosting services:

If you know how to set up a server base, then you can provide forum hosting services. 

By doing this, you are allowing less technically savvy people to host their forums on your website.

You can easily find free and excellent forums to install, such as this one. That script allows you to host multiple forums on one site.

In order for you to make money with forum hosting services, here are some steps you can take:

•  Design a website for yourself.
•  Set up a server or get forum hosting script from http://www.phpbbhs.com/ index.html
•  Advertise in websites or forums, social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods. 
•  Attract people to host forums in your site by giving them attractive deals
•  Market your site by advertising in various websites which are frequented by people who are interested in hosting forums
•  Pocket the service fee

How much can I make out of forum hosting services?

 This depends on how much you charge customers. You may also choose to provide the forum hosting services for free and simply make money off of advertising revenue (you can use Google AdSense or you can charge people to post advertisements on your site).

Assist people in installation of applications &get money

Assist people in installation of applications:

Many people are not tech savvy at all. A lot of people don’t know how to do much more than check their email and browse the web, but want to create a website.

If you are pretty competent at installations, you can easily make money by installing applications and/or software to people’s computers.

ZzzThis is also one of the simplest jobs to make very quick money. Not everyone is tech savvy. Many of them are aware of only the basics of internet like browsing, email, etc. Such people might require assistance in getting applications installed into their system. If you are very good in those things, then you can provide such assistance for people for a service fee. 

In order for you to make money with doing installations, here are some steps you can take:

• Design a website for yourself and list down the services you offer. Advertise in websites or forums, social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods.
• Get yourself registered in freelancing sites like Elance.com, Guru.com, and Odesk.com and look for such jobs
• Provide the services and pocket the money

How much money can I make?

 You can make anywhere from $5 per installations and upwards

Answer technical questions for a fee & get money

Answer technical questions for a fee:

If there’s something you’re very strong in, then set up a website for yourself and allow customers to ask any questions they want.

You can either charge a monthly fee or a per-question fee, and then reply back to them within a reasonable amount of time.

Because there are so many sites that provide answers for free, you want to make sure that if you do this, it’s in something that you have extensive knowledge in and can really help add value with.

An example of a site that does this is ExpertBee.

In order for you to make money with answering technical questions, here are some steps you can take:

•  Establish yourself as an expert by writing articles, creating a blog, or even possibly an ebook. 
•  Advertise in websites or forums, social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods.

How much money can I make?

• You could charge anywhere from $.10 per question to $100 per question, depending on your expert level. You might also opt to charge a monthly fee for “x” number of questions per month, so that you have comfortable recurring income coming in every month.

Provide Uptime monitoring services & get money

Provide Uptime monitoring services:

Webmasters generally want to make sure that their website is working as frequently as possible. If their site goes down for any reason, they want to know how long it was down and why. This is crucial for webmasters as a lot of times, their sites are their sources of income.

Because of this, they hire people to monitor the uptime for their websites.

You could use free uptime monitoring software, put in a website’s details, download the reports, and provide them to a webmaster. Even though some webmasters know about this software, they’d still rather hire someone to do it for them so they don’t need to think about it.

In order for you to make money with providing uptime services, here are some steps you can take:

•  Browse through the internet and download a free uptime monitoring software (Example: http://www.internetuptimemonitor.com/)
•  Get yourself registered in freelancing sites like Elance.com, Guru.com,  and Odesk.com and look for uptime monitoring jobs.
•  Get hired and generate the report from the software from time to time
•  Provide timely reports to the buyer as agreed 
•  Get the job done and get paid

How much money can I make?

• If someone knows about uptime monitoring, they probably also know about the free software they could use, so you’re more being paid for saving them time than anything else. If you get a lot of clients and charge a monthly fee  - even $10 to send a detailed report weekly - then get 300 clients, you could make $3,000 with just that. 
• Another route to go is to explain to people who don’t know about the software why uptime monitoring is so important, and then sell them. This should be an easier sale for you.

Become an Application Teste & get money

Become an Application Tester:

Application Testing involves testing the websites in all the browsers and in all the operating systems as well. At times, application testers are given various scenarios to test the outcome. Further changes or enhancements will be done if required, based on the testing results. There are companies which provide such testing services exclusively. 

(Example: http://www.ishir.com/independent-application-testing.htm)

In order for you to become a Application Tester, this is what you would do:

•  Browse through the internet and search for “Application Testing jobs” 
•  Get yourself registered in freelancing sites like Elance, Rentacoder, etc., and look for such jobs
•  Get yourself registered in companies which provide such services and let them know that you are interested in taking up such jobs (Example: http:// www.mindtree.com/itservices/testing/testing.html) 
•  You can even create your own site and advertise for yourself
•  Once you get hired, provide a detailed and effective report about the application and its bug to the company

How much money can I make out of such jobs?

 You can expect anything from $5 - $12 per hour depending on the criticality and the time involve

Modify and create additional functionality to existing software & get money

Modify and create additional functionality to existing software:

There are times when existing software is good, but could really use certain improvements.

You can make these improvements and either sell them to the company, or sell them to users of the programs.

You can find out more right here. 

In order for you to make money with this, here are some steps you can take:

•  You can start your own website and advertise on the services offered. You can advertise in websites or forums, social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods.
•  You can get registered in sites that offer similar services
•  Check sites like Elance.com, Guru.com, and Odesk.com. to see if anyone is asking for this.

How much money can I make?

 This will depend on the software you work with, how many modifications you make, and if you’re being paid hourly or per project. You can expect $10 an hour or more, usually.

Create an automation software and charge for the service & get money

Create an automation software and charge for the service:

Many people have begun becoming very interested in automation services or software where a task can be done for them without having to do as much manual work. 

Some examples of these pieces of software include automated software for article rewriting, for checking spelling/grammatical errors in the articles, for article spinning, for PDF to word conversion, and so forth. 

Even though there are a lot of pieces of software out there already, there is still a lot out there that is ready to be identified. If you can identify the needs and create the software, you can make a pretty penny.

In order for you to make money with web components, here are some steps you can take:

•  Browse through the administration jobs in freelancing sites to get a fair idea about what sort of services are required. For example, you might see  a specific job where someone is asking to extract a set of data from a particular site and populate it in excel. 
•  If demand is high for a specific service, you can mass-market a software. You might also want to create something for one specific buyer and charge them for it.
•  Another option is to take jobs and charge the market rate as if it were manual work, but use your software to speed up the production.

How much money can I charge for such services?

•  If you decide to make mass market software, you can charge anywhere from $5 to thousands of dollars. Most software runs $100 or less.
•  If you are providing the required services by yourself, then you can charge  on a per entry basis. For example, if you are collecting name and telephone numbers listed on a site, you can charge something like $0.01 per entry.

Design or build websites for people & get money

Design or build websites for people:

If you are good at HTML, graphics and Photoshop, then web designing might be a great option for you to consider. 

In order to create websites, you just need some creativity and knowhow of how to use the tools.

You can often create impressive websites using templates alone, and people will gladly pay so that they don’t need to take the time to figure out how to learn the programs.

In order for you to become a web designer, here are some steps you can take:

•  Look for jobs on sites like Elance.com, Guru.com,  and Odesk.com.
•  Make sure you clearly read over all job descriptions. Once you’re sure you understand what a client is looking for and feel confident that you can do it, apply for the job.
•  Make sure you deliver in accordance with the requirements 
•  You can also advertise in websites or forums, social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods.

How much can I charge for web designers?

 You can get paid anything from $10 or more per hour, or sometimes you can charge per website. Websites often go for $100 or more per site, with more being added for custom designs, extra pages, and so forth.

How much money can I make out of it?

Do you have a passion for programming? Are you tech savvy? Can you get anything and everything done on computers? If so, you might like some of the ideas below:

Write software for resale, with rights:

If you are very good at programming, this is a great way to earn extra cash.

Because there are so many websites and different needs, if you can create a program that solves a need for clients, you can sell it for a good amount of money.

You could also offer resale rights to the program, which allows other people to sell it and collect the commissions. If you do this, you can charge a premium. This is great if you’re not a fabulous marketer but still want to earn a lot of money.

In order for you to sell software, here are some steps you can take:

•  First, understand the general needs of the buyer and write your software accordingly. OnSellingSoftware does a great job of going into this. 
•  Ask in forums, or ask your friends or target clients, what they would love to have software for.
•  Advertise your software in websites or forums. You can also advertise on social networks, amongst friends, or via other traffic methods.

How much money can I make out of it?

 This will depend on the complexity of the software and how much you decide to charge for it.

Browse through freebie sites and get paid

Browse through freebie sites and get paid:

There are a lot of freebie sites online that you can sign up to in order to get a lot of valuable free items.

While these sites don’t always offer cash, you can take the freebies and sell them to other people.

Where do I find such companies?

• Browse through the net and make a list of companies that offer freebies. You can also go on forums such as FatWallet to get ideas from there.
• Sign up for the offers you’re interested in.
• How much do I get paid?
• Depending on the freebies you get, you can sell them for anywhere from a dollar to $20 or so.